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OTO Mills is continuing its plan of growth
and is redesigning its organisational and
business structure. Appropriate acquisitions
and investments – and the creation of a
new operating unit for the production of
forklift trucks – have provided an opportunity
to reconfigure the company's identity in a
group model that takes advantage of internal
synergies that are in turn made available to
all customers.
Theevolution involveschanges incorporate
identity and the way it communicates its
brand. The organisational change remains
aligned with the management philosophy that
has guided OTO Mills with continued success
over many years.
Since 16 September 2011 OTO SpA
assumes the role of parent company to which
it refers three business units and one 100
per cent owned subsidiary: OTO Mills for the
production of tube mill lines, OTO lift trucks
for the production of forklift trucks, OTO Steel
for the plant of Motteggiana specialised in
metalworking, and OTO Automation for the
former Elletre of Sovizzo (VI), which has
become now completely owned by OTO SpA.
With more than 300 employees, a total area
of 85,000m2 of which 35,000m2 is covered,
and a production that is 100 per cent made in
Italy, OTO SpA continues to consolidate and
develop its own know-how over time.
Transforming and adapting to the
requirements that the market expresses, the
company is offering itself to customers as a
partner of great reliability and excellence.
OTO Mills – Italy
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OTO Mills reorganised business structure
Successful
project
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HYDRATIGHT’S attention to detail,
professional approach, safe working
practices and leak-free start-up
performance so impressed senior Petrofac
staff that a senior company engineer sent
a letter of commendation following a recent
project in Kuwait.
Hydratight was asked to assist in Petrofac’s
two-year Kuwaiti construction project for the
Kuwait Oil Company – a 40" gas pipeline
from KOC’s North Kuwait Gas Booster
Station to the Mina Ahmadi Refinery in South
Kuwait. Construction is now complete and
the pipeline is ready for commissioning.
Though Petrofac’s main sub-contractor
was responsible for bolting and tensioning
work on the pipeline, the company awarded
Hydratight a contract for fixing several
hundred joints on 30", 36" and 40" lines
directly. “We were in touch with Petrofac from
the early stages of the project and made it
clear that not committing sufficient resources
to jointing and tensioning could be a false
economy,” explained Murali Narasimhan,
Hydratight’s Kuwait and India manager. “We
suggested what the right specification should
be and the potential cost of getting it wrong,
and the company’s engineers agreed.”
In a letter of appreciation, Petrofac project
construction manager Mr K Pradeep wrote,
“Hydratight demonstrated a professional
approach from the start and handled the
job with professional work practice and the
deployment of a capable team. Safe work
practices resulted in zero safety issues and
contributed to our overall safety objectives.
We believe this is an important reference
installation for Hydratight in Kuwait.”
Petrofac has since suggested other
projects on which Hydratight might help,
and is also showing interest in Hydratight’s
innovative joint-integrity management
system, to manage jointing maintenance on
a major water injection project in 2012-13.
Hydratight has also been recognised
by Singapore Takada Industries, a major
contractor on Exxon Mobil’s Jurong
refinery in Singapore. Hydratight Singapore
received an award from Takada for its
efforts and contribution towards achieving
2.5mn project man-hours without a single
occurrence of time lost through injury.
Hydratight’s work on the project
included bolting and on-site machining
services. “The award was very welcome
and gratefully received because Takada
too is passionate about safe working
and has received many similar awards
for its excellence in this field,” said Mark
Foggin, Singapore business unit manager.
“Likewise this trophy recognises our own
commitment to safety at all levels and in
all services. It’s the result of a great team
effort by all concerned.”
Hydratight – UK
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The Hydratight award